Rail connection.



W. G. BOPP.

RAIL CONNECTION.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT.30,1807.

gig gga I Patented. Nov. 23, 1909.

WILLIAM C. BDPF, 0

ARCADIA, MISSOURI:

RAIL OONNECTIOlT.

season Specification of Letters Eetent.

Patented Nov. 23, tees.

Application filed September 30, 1907. Serial No. 395,228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM'C. Born, a. citizen of the United States, residing atArcadia, in the county of Iron and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rail Connections, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in a device for connecting track rails and the object of the invention is a connector for rails with which bolts are not required and in which the tread portion of the rail is strengthened at the point where the car wheels leave one rail and pass upon another.

My invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described, pointed out in the claim and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view showing the device in position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a section upon the line 3 --3 of Fig. Fig. 4c is a detail perspective view of mydevice removed from the track.

In these drawings A represents end portions of me usual track rails and instead oi bringing these rails together at their ends in the usual manner they are spaced apart by a short tread section preferably between two and three inches in length and shown at B. This section has the form oi. the ordinary rail with exception that upon one side the web is grfeatly thickened as shown at B, curving outwardly and downwardly instead of being. under cut in the usual manner. From this thickened weh portion there projects Wings it which extend from opposite ends of the supplemental tread portion 13 and over lap sides of the rails A. Upon the opposite side of the tread section B is a chair formed of the usual rail flange C bent upwardly and inwardly as shown at-C'. It, will be understood. that the supplemental section 15, Wings l5 and the chair formed by these flanges are all in one piece. After this supplemental section has been placed in position between the ends of the rails A, a tie plate D is slipped into the j chair formed by the flanges C and C and overlaps the sides of the rails lying opposite to the wings B and for the same distance. and the tie plate-D are held in position by The Wings B spikes E. It will be obvious that the supplemental tread portion B, by thickening of the web is much heavier per-foot length than the track rails with which it is used thus giving additional strength and weight ofinetal to that portion ofthe track Where connection is made between two of the track rails, The joint is not only strengthened by thickening the portion 13 but the Wings B are hollowed out on their inner faces and. curved upwardly toward the rail "Web on their outer faces, the tie plate 1) bein shaped in the same manner, so that on bot sides of the joint the web is braced by upwardly slanting braces, inclining toward the rail from opposite sides, so that the rail is eliectually braced against those lateral thrusts peculiarto the heavy, six drive Wheel engines now in common use, and due to unequal distribution of weight in the drive Wheels.

What I claim is:

A rail connection comprising a short, thickened rail portion on one side, Wings extending in opposite directions from said. thickened portion, said ings being upwardly and inwardly curved on their outer faces and hollowed out on their inner faces and bearing against, the. under faces of the ball of adjacent rails, a chair carried by the short rail portion and a tie plate corresponding in cross section to the Wings, said wings and tie' plate forming oppositely inclined braces for the rail tread. l

p WILLIAM C. BOPP.

vll itnessesz Jenn MAnsHALL,

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